April 25th - Bablock Hythe to Rushy Lock meadow

Set off at 10am on quite a cold morning -2deg C overnight. No lock keepers in sight all day, all self service. At the first lock just as we were coming out another narrowboat set off in front of us (thats considered bad manners) He was slow and holding us up so we both moored up in a convenient field to have a cuppa and wait for them to get ahead.  A small group of runners jogged into view and we got talking to a very nice lady, Mina Guli who told us she was just running into London to finish er '6 Rivers Run' to help raise awareness of clean water in 3rd world countries. I thought the 6 rivers might have included the Avon, Trent etc but was gobsmacked to learn she was running the Colorado River, the Amazon River in South America, the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, the Yangtze River in Asia and the Nile River in Africa, finishing on the River Thames on 30th April!  Her youtube video is here